What did he say? Anyone put this up on YouTube yet?
After he and Torre did their promotion for prostate cancer awareness on the postgame show with Ray and Johnny, Lasorda finished by delivering a message to the Nationals fans. To paraphrase, he said that the Nats have great owners who have spent the money to bring in players and that the Nationals fans need to support the team by going to the ballpark and spending their money so that the owners will have the money they need to spend on better players so that the fans have a better team.
I almost projectile vomited at the TV. My wife and I groaned and told him to STFU. While the gist of his point may be viewed as a simple matter of the way sports economics works, the exact phrasing and tone made it clear that the point was that the owners were great and ponied up their money and it was the responsibility of the fans to start supporting the team if they wanted it to get any better. Just clueless nonsense. The Lerners have spent next to nothing to date while the fans have supported a joke of a franchise in ways they would never have been supported anywhere else. Lasorda can stick it. I really had to wonder if he was put up to that by the ownership group.
